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Curbed “outs” bedbugged condo development; gossip blogs, bed bugs, and denial »

By nobugsonme on Oct 27, 2007 in Cadwalader, activism, allergies, apartments, awareness, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, bloomberg, cambridge, colleges, condominiums, consumer, curbed, denial, detection, good ideas, gossip, harvard, health, hotels, ignorance, landlords, law, lawsuits, legal, massachusetts, mental health, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, public education, public health, real estate, rumors, spread, tenants, treatment, usa, we're doomed, workplace | 0 Comments

Curbed.com, the real estate blog, claims that 30 Lincoln Plaza, currently being redeveloped into pricey condominiums (Curbed mentions a price of $1,185,000 for 647 sq/ft one bedrooms), is infested with bed bugs:
UPPER WEST SIDE—It seems there is a little detail about the condo conversion at 30 Lincoln Plaza that may have been overlooked: “You failed […]

Harvard dorm treated for scabies–but what was it really? Also, bed bugs at Columbia? »

By nobugsonme on Oct 26, 2007 in "bites", bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, cambridge, colleges, columbia, diagnosis, dorms, dr. michael alpert, entomologists, harvard, itchy, ivy league, massachusetts, mites, mosquitoes, mystery, new york, nyc, rashes, scabies, usa | 6 Comments

Ivy League gossip blog the IvyGate explained this week that the supposed scabies outbreak that forced everyone in the Pennypacker Harvard freshman dorm to be treated for scabies with a full-body pyrethrin cream application (not to mention making them all undergo the extensive laundering and calling-of-romantic-partners that condition requires), is now thought not to have […]